Job 3:4 (BSB)
If only that day had turned to darkness! May God above disregard it; may no light shine upon it.
Commentary on Job 3:4
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 3:1-10: Long was Job's heart hot within him; and, while he was musing, the fire burned, and the more for being stifled and suppressed. At length he spoke with his tongue, but not such a good word as David spoke after a long pause: Lord, make me to know my end, Psa 39:3, Psa 39:4.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 3:4: Let that day be darkness,.... Not only dark, but darkness itself, extremely dark; and which is to be understood not figuratively of the darkness of affliction and calamity; this Job would not wish for, either for himself, who had enough of that, or for others; but literally of gross natural darkness, that was horrible and dreadful, as some (x) render it: this was the reverse...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 3:4: let not God regard it--rather, more poetically, "seek it out." "Let not God stoop from His bright throne to raise it up from its dark hiding-place." The curse on the day in Job 3:3, is amplified in Job 3:4-5; that on the night, in Job 3:6-10.
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 3:4: Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it. (d) Let it be put out of the number of days, and let it not have the sight of the sun to separate it from the night.